An apron full of beans: new and selected poems

Introduction

An Apron Full of Beans

Pictures of My Mother

In Mr. Sanders' Barbershop

Being in a Box is Better Than Dying like Jesus

The River Just Keeps On Going

Fanny Kemble

Hungry

In Mr. Turner's fields

The Time Is Drawing Near

Preacher Nat

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman Is Moses

Finding the Railroad With My Feet

My Father Stole Away

John Brown

The Overland Mail

Woman In A Red Dress

Harriet Brings Runaways North

Frederick Douglass

While Lincoln Is Still Thinking

Runaway Song

Age

Almost Gone

Rivers to Cross

Man With The Devil On His Tail

Big Boy Leaves Home

A Photograph or Two

Apricot Bright and Tan

Ebony

My Old Gal My Honey

Liver Lips

Workers of the Soil

Chocolate

Toomer's Gone

Sewer

His Fingers Seem to Sing

Pitcher of Lemonade

Uncles

Deep Chocolate

Here Comes Sunday Morning

Have You Heard the Little Presbyterian Children Sing?

Sooner or Later

When My Grandmother Died

Brotherman

With A Word On My Lips, I Fight

Since I Have Seen You

Annals of the Poor

Mississippi

Picture of My Grandfather

Why I Did Not Give My Seat to That White Man in 1932

A Poem's in His Head Just for You

The Short Unhappy Teen Years of Dirty Harriet

Dirty Harriet

Montgomery

Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song

Bigger Thomas Says Some Bad Niggers is Over Thirty.

I Am My Mother's Daughter

Young James B.

The World of (Some of) Our Fathers

Our Fathers

All We Have

They Won't Forget

Meat

Eleanor Roosevelt

Country Gathers Like A Single Person

Hiroshima My Love

Hogmeat

Some Chitterlings For Joe

Strong

The Green Hornet

The Clean Well Dressed Men

The Phantom Lady

Boogie Woogie

Jackie Robinson

Mister

Lady Day

Sucked His Dick Cut His Throat

Where The Daytime Falls

What I Don't Have in Spades

Southland

Carmen Jones

We Have Never Loved

Mama Mine

Negro Women of The Movies

Coffin and Digger

Street Song

Frankie Has A Song for You

Sinatra

Pickup On South Street

Taxi Driver

Mars Attacks

Thousands Make The Dusk Of Africa

Sweet Song

The South Was Waiting

To Martin

Luther King, Jr.

The River the World Knows

My Lord What A Morning

Fannie Lou Hamer

Freedom School

Bus Boycott

The Vertical Negro

To Mr. Jim Crow

Lunch

Tired From Walking But Not Tired Enough to Sit Down in That Bus

That Kind of Preaching

James Baldwin

My Brother is Homemade

Things of the Street

Birmingham 1968

Death of Dr. King

Brother Poet

Ray Charles

Long Hair Thank God Almighty Nappy Hair

Black Poet Negro No More

1976

For Being There

Boom Box

Soldier's Story

The South Is My Home

Epilogue

Elegy

A Personal Glossary.